In celebration of the recently released publication Making Home: Belonging, Memory, and Utopia in the 21st Century, join artists and designers Robert Earl Paige, Renée Stout, Jomo Tariku, and Hadiya Williams in conversation with Michelle Joan Wilkinson, curator at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, as they explore ideas about home through the lens of heritage, culture, and design. The speakers will reflect on their experiences of making home through art, design, and through cultivating spaces for the nourishment of self and community. In their work, which includes textiles, altars, tablescapes, and furniture, we find examples of how each uniquely addresses refuge, ancestry, and interconnection in home living spaces and the objects they create.

The program highlights the Making Home – Smithsonian Design Triennial exhibition, a collaboration between two Smithsonian museums, Cooper Hewitt and the National Museum of African American History and Culture, as well as the latter’s current design exhibition, Reclaiming My Time. Signed books will be available for purchase courtesy of Smithsonian Enterprises.

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